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If a company is wound up by means of a turbo liquidation (also known as fast-track liquidation) without the director fulfilling their duty to notify creditors, this may result in liability on the part of that director. This is evident from a judgment of The Hague District Court dated 8 July 2026 (ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2026:21059). What were […]

In Jenec (Case C-81/24), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that a bank must first carry out an individual assessment of the money-laundering and terrorist-financing risk associated with the proposed relationship. An OFAC listing may justify enhanced scrutiny. It is not an automatic ground for refusal. The judgment matters to banks, […]

It is safe to say that, after more than four years of targeting Russia’s economy, the package introduces no groundbreaking new measures. The 21st package signals the EU’s willingness to maintain pressure, but it also seems that further reaching economical restrictions increasingly require concessions from individual Member States that those states have shown themselves unwilling […]